אֵ֫צֶר
Ezer
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ezer’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H687 appears — 5 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 36:21 וְ/אֵ֖צֶר conj + n Proper Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan. These are the chiefs who came of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
- Genesis 36:27 אֵ֑צֶר n Proper These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.
- Genesis 36:30 אֵ֖צֶר n Proper chief Dishon, chief Ezer, and chief Dishan: these are the chiefs who came of the Horites, according to their chiefs in the land of Seir.
1 Chronicles 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew name אצר centers on the idea of “Ezer.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 5 verses. The word gravitates to Genesis (60%), then 1 Chronicles. Debuting at Genesis 36:21, it then recurs through the corpus. Dig into 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H687 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 3 verses 60%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 40%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 60%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ezer 5×
- American Standard Version: Ezer 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ezer 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ezer 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H687 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H687 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H687 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H687 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Ezer = "treasure"
- a chief of the Horites
Word origin
n.pr.m. (treasure; or covenant Arabic إِصْرٌ ) a chief of the Horites Gn 36:21, 27, 30 1 Ch 1:38, 42.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אצר (ʼâtsar) (H686) — to store up.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָצַר
- to lock up, hoard, gather; cmp. גָּנַז. B. Bath. 90ᵇ אוֹצְרֵי פירות those who store up fruit (for speculation). Ib. אין אוֹצְרִין וכ׳; Tosef. Ab. Zar. IV (V), 1 (אצר a. עצר used promiscuously) you must not hoard up (for speculation) such things as are necessaries of life; [correct אין א׳ דברים שיש … כגון יינות שמנים וסלתות ופירות]. Ib. לֶאֱצוֹר (Tosef. לאַצֵּר Pi.). Ib. לא יְאַצֵּר Pi. (Tosef. ולא יַעֲצוֹר, read לא; Var. לא יַאֲצִיר). Gen. R. s. 45 end (play on נבוכדרא̇צ̇ר̇) שאֲצָרָן וכ׳ he locked them up in the desert &c.—Y. Dem. VI, end, 26ᵃ; Tosef. ib. VI, 4; Ab. Zar. 71ᵃ אוֹצֵר (עוֹצֵר) government’s store-collector, commissary (apothecarius), or read אוֹצָר q. v.
- , v. supra.
אֲצַר I
- *Targ. O. Gen. XLI, 35 וייצרון, Var. ויוצרון, ויצרון). B. Bath. 90ᵇ פוק אצר לי וכ׳ (prob. אַצַּר Pa.) go out and buy up for me for storage &c.
- to be stored up. Targ. Is. XXIII, 18.
אַצָּר
- w. (preced.) אַצַּר פירי speculator in provision. Yoma 83ᵃ; B. Bath. 90ᵇ
אֲצַר II
- (preced.) contraction(h.. Bekh. 21ᵇ א׳ חיותא contraction of the womb (and consequent destruction of the fœtus).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H687 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/אֵ֖צֶר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:21 | 2 |
| אֵ֑צֶר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:27 | 1 |
| אֵ֔צֶר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:42 | 1 |
| אֵ֖צֶר | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:30 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H687, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ezer). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Treasure. (1.) One of the sons of Seir, the native princes, "dukes," of Mount Hor (Gen. 36:21, 27). (2.) 1 Chr. 7:21; (3.) 4:4. (4.) One of the Gadite champions who repaired to David at Ziklag (12:9). (5.) A Levite (Neh. 3:19). (6.) A priest (12:42).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(treasure).
+ A son of Ephraim, who was slain by the aboriginal inhabitants of Gath while engaged in a foray on their cattle. (1 Chronicles 7:21) (B.C. before 1491.) + A priest who assisted in the dedication of the walls of Jerusalem under Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 12:42) (B.C. 446.) + Father of Hushah of the sons of Hur. (1 Chronicles 4:4) + One of the Gadite chiefs who fought with David. (1 Chronicles 12:8,9) (B.C. 1054.) + One who aided in repairing the wall at Jerusalem; a Levite. (Nehemiah 3:19)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a help
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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